
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ilium (novel)

Related Topics

Endymion (book)

Dan Simmons

Abh

The Printz

Times New Roman

Neutral zone

Lod Airport Massacre

Internment camp

Bread and Circus

Tom Berenger

Manchester Ship Canal

Vidovdan

British Expeditionary Force

Milazzo

Aabybro

	Ilium (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ilium is a science fiction novel by Dan Simmons concerning the re-creation of the events in the Iliad (possibly on an alternate-universe Earth) by "post-humans" who dwell on Olympus Mons on Mars, and who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods.
		Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, the novel is a form of "literary science fiction" which relies heavily on intertext: in this case with Homer and Shakespeare, as well as periodic references to Marcel Proust and Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada.
		Yet Ilium is different from any of the works of Bradbury and LeGuin in its exploration of the very far future of humanity, and in the extra human or post human themes associated with this.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilium_%28novel%29 (345 words)

	Ilion (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ilium, or ilion (not to be confused with the ileum), is a bone, part of the pelvis.
		Ilium is the name of a novel by Dan Simmons published in 2003.
		Ilium is a fictional town in upper New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilium (180 words)

	Ilium (novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ilium is also thematically influenced by extropianism, as it ispeopled with 'post-humans' of the far future.
		As with most of his science fiction and in particular with one his previous novels, the Hugo award -winning Hyperion, Simmons shows here that he is anartist of the tradition of soft science fiction and itsmasters like Bradbury and LeGuin.
		Ilium is based on a very solid literary approach like that of most of Ray Bradbury 's work, but it goes farther in terms of describing larger segments ofsociety and broad historical events.
	www.therfcc.org /ilium-novel--268015.html (252 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ilium (novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Soft science fiction or soft SF is science fiction whose plots and themes tend to focus on human characters and their relations and feelings, while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws.
		Science fiction novels The Internet Speculative Fiction Database is a database of bibliographic information on science fiction and related genres such as fantasy fiction and horror fiction.
		Ilium is the Latin form of Greek Ilion, the name more commonly used in ancient Greek texts for the legendary city also there called Truia, this latter form being rendered in Latin as Troia and in English as Troy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ilium-(novel) (1163 words)

	Ilium by Dan Simmons - an infinity plus review
		The key Moravec in Ilium is Mahnmut, who works (as it were) as an explorer under the ice-capped seas of Jupiter's moon Europa, and who in his spare time is quaintly obsessed with Shakespeare's sonnets.
		Yet I couldn't shake the sense that this idiom, aligned with Hannah's point of view and therefore with her mode of understanding her world, is too technical, too precise and instrumental ('carapace', 'killing blades retracted but manipulator pads extended').
		One of the glories of that novel is the way Wolfe writes his machine via the perceptions of the boy rather than via the perceptions of a notional physics or engneering graduate.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/ilium.htm (1719 words)

	Excessive Candour
		But we misrepresent Ilium if we give the impression that it is mainly an exercise in learning how to learn about the past; it is very much more (and sometimes a bit less) than that.
		Ilium is a Theatre of Memory of space opera.
		Ilium is perhaps, as well, the first successful space opera of Troy—Brian Stableford's Dies Irae trilogy from 1971 was fatally surly about its Homeric understory—and is so, I think, because it is the first story to respond to the Iliad as though Homer himself had written a space opera.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue321/excess.html (1045 words)

	Review \| Ilium by Dan Simmons
		Ilium has elements of space opera, H.G. Wells, Shakespeare, fantasy and hard science fiction, a page-turning plot and several story strands that seem unrelated at first, but gradually come together in a huge climax towards the end.
		The novel opens with the Trojan War in its tenth year, the period of the Iliad.
		Ilium isn't anywhere near as dark as the other Simmons novels I've read, which doesn't mean there aren't any scary scenes.
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/ilium.html (618 words)

	Thiamin Trek Reading Notes: Books Read in 2003 (45 Total)
		The novel is an exploration of Watanabe's morality as he negotiates (or, more typically, fails to negotiate) these various relationships with varying degrees of success.
		The novel follows Cayce as she tracks down the elusive maker of "the footage", a set of disjoint film segments that has garnered a global following in various internet chat rooms and the attention of a wealthy entrepeneur.
		This is the first novel I've read that's explicitly set in a post-9/11 world (one of the themes is Cayce's coming-to-terms with the disappearance of her father in Manhattan on that day), and Gibson treats it well.
	www.96db.com /books/2003.htm (9260 words)

	Ilium by Dan Simmons - Official sffworld.com review
		Ilium is without a doubt Epic, any novel that has gods as primary characters, thousands of years of history in the pages can rightly be considered epic.
		The scope of the novel is quite grandfrom our own time to the far future terra-formed Mars presented here, Simmons displays adept skill at illustrating humanity, alien life and artificial life at the precipice of war and discovery.
		Though with a novel of such an epic scope, not revealing all the information is probably the intention of the author.
	www.sffworld.com /brevoff/138.html (735 words)

	Ilium: Half My Novel is Missing!
		First off the novel - at least the Gollancz SF British edition - makes no mention on the jacket (or interior) that we could locate, that this is only the first part of a duology.
		Ilium is the first half of a two-volume epic to be concluded in Olympus, currently scheduled to be delivered to Harper Collins later this year."
		Ilium is a 10 out of 10 star novel once you get over the extraneous production issues.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /news/arc/2003/nz6690.php (740 words)

	Amazon.com: Olympos: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As readers of Ilium will know, the novel is set in a future where "post-humans" have transformed themselves into the Greek gods and are playing out the Trojan war with a human population they seem to have created from remnant DNA in what turns out to be an alternate universe.
		But in the previous novel the Trojan war suddenly no longer follows its due course as laid out in the Illiad because of the meddling of one, Thomas Hockenberry, a 20th century classics professor whose DNA has been recombined by the post-humans so he can follow the war and report on its progress to them.
		Much of the novel, in fact, focuses on Harman, one of the wiser and more learned humans, and his cadre of friends who are trying save themselves and the rest of the human population from obliteration.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380978946?v=glance (2668 words)

	Dan Simmons: Ilium
		Although the story focusing on Hockenberry appears to be the primary tale, that perception may be based solely on his ties to the city of the novel's title.
		Ilium is a major work of science fiction in much the same way Hyperion was, but while Hyperion could more easily be read on its own, Ilium clearly can only be read and fully understood with a reading of Olympos when the later work is eventually published.
		Until then, readers will be able to hunt for clues in Ilium and enjoy the adventures of the scholics, the moravecs, and the strange, peaceful humans who inhabit a garden party existence in the far future.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/ilium.html (411 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Ilium
		For this reason more casual readers may find the initial stages to the novel reluctant to admit interest, each tale appearing to proceed in divergent directions, the resulting shifts in the novel's focus and characters interrupting the threads of what has preceded, regardless of each separate story thread's imagination or promise for future development.
		In terms of its plotting, this is a complicated novel whose integrity is slow to reveal, and it is the familiarity of the Iliad storyline that initially binds the work together, serving as a form of place mark while the other two strands, at first seeming unrelated, gradually come together.
		And so much of what occurs throughout the novel is driven not by drama -- though there is plenty of that, especially towards the end -- but by anticipation of how the author will ultimately resolve and integrate all of his various plotlines, cast and speculation.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/il160.htm (1616 words)

	Ilium - TheBestLinks.com - Australia, Dan Simmons, Troy, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term Ilium has several meanings, including in legends, in anatomy, and in the arts.
		Legend places this city close to the seacoast in what is now northwest Turkey southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida.
		A new city of Ilium was refounded on the site that many believed to be the location of the legendary Ilion/Ilium in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Ilium.html (281 words)

	Read about Ilium (novel) at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Ilium (novel) and learn about Ilium (novel) here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A novel by Dan Simmons that concerns the re-creation of the
		Iliad (possibly on an alternate-universe Earth) by post-humans who dwell on the Olympus Mons volcano on a future Mars, and who have taken on the roles of the Greek Gods.
		Ursula K. Le Guin Simmons paints the action of Ilium on a vast and complex universe made of relatively plausible technological and scientific elements.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Ilium_%28novel%29 (329 words)

	Bureau 42 \| Ilium
		Dan Simmons' Ilium packs a lot of story into 570 pages-- but you'll have to wait for Olympos (to be released next Spring) to learns how it ends.
		Ilium won the 2004 Locus Readers Poll Award for best novel, and is a finalist for this year's Hugo, to be awarded in August.
		Ilium and its sequel have been optioned for a movie adaptation.
	www.bureau42.com /view/2067 (805 words)

	Ilium by Dan Simmons (Hardcover) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Ilium is Dan Simmons' first full-length science fiction novel since The Rise of Endymion in 1997.
		In Jupiter space, a pair of Moravecs -- partially organic robots with an affinity for Proust and Shakespeare -- agree to investigate a quantum anomaly recently discovered on the surface of Mars.
		Looking backward toward the epic glories of Homer's Greece and forward toward the marvels -- and terrors -- of the distant future, Ilium is a novel of heroic proportions that stands at the intersection of quantum physics and ancient myth.
	www.clarkesworldbooks.com /book_[SL000313].html (165 words)

	Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
		Dan’s novel about the ill-fated 1845 Sir John Franklin Expedition to the arctic, THE TERROR, has sold to Little, Brown and is currently scheduled for release in January of 2007.
		Dan Simmons is a recipient of a Hugo Award and the author of critically acclaimed suspense novels and science fiction novels.
		ILIUM ended with the Greek and Trojan heroes allied against the Olympian gods, advanced space-going robots called moravecs aiding the human side.
	www.dansimmons.com /news/news_items.htm (1919 words)

	Discussion: Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut - The Book Forum
		Blending science fiction with his memoirs Vonnegut has created a meta-fictional novel where time travel is a primary plot device; one that allows him the freedom to dismiss chronology in the telling of his tale.
		His condition, that of being “unstuck in time”, leaves a nice ambiguity about the novel although it’s highly probable that his travelling is a delusional passage between memories brought on by the trauma of witnessing the bombing of Dresden.
		While the novel is understandably a mess, I can’t help but feel that the prose and characterisation are lacking and what, on paper, sounds like a great idea has been put through a literary slaughterhouse.
	www.thebookforum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4730 (1642 words)

	Ilium (novel) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, the novel is a form of "literary science fiction" which relies heavily on intertext: in this case with Homer and Shakespeare, and periodic references to Marcel Proust.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Ilium (novel) contains research on
		Ilium (novel), External links, 2003 books and Science fiction novels.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ilium_%28novel%29 (350 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Ilium by Dan Simmons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ilium, of course, is another name for ancient Troy, and the tale opens on the blood-soaked plains of that besieged city as the Greek armies carry on their nearly decade-long attack, while Thomas Hockenberry, Ph.D.--"the unwilling Chorus of this tale"--studies the whole affair.
		Reassembled from scraps of DNA thousands of years in the future, Hockenberry and a host of other scholars were gathered up and sent to the past by a race of creatures with awesome powers and fickle tempers (the Greek gods) to serve as their recorders for what they saw as this grandest of games.
		The cast is a delight and the three subplots blend together into a tremendous science fiction novel with fantasy elements that will elate the audience.
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=43419 (2404 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Slaughterhouse Five - Short Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Slaughterhouse Five is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a decidedly non-heroic man who has become "unstuck in time." He travels back and forth in time, visiting his birth, death, all the moments in between repeatedly and out of order.
		The novel is framed by Chapters One and Ten, in which Vonnegut himself talks about the difficulties of writing the novel and the effects of Dresden on his own life.
		Billy is born in 1922 in Ilium, New York.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/slaughterhousefive/shortsumm.html (632 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ilium (Gollancz S.F.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Consequently, I picked up Dan Simmons' "Ilium" simply because I heard it was a retelling of the Trojan War in general and Homer's "Iliad" in particular.
		I have to admit that my interest for the non-"Iliad" parts of "Ilium" took a while to be kindled, mainly because my fascination with how the Trojan War was playing out was so great.
		Hockenberry has been studying the Trojan War for nine years and as the novel begins he and his colleagues are excited because they have finally reached the start of the "Iliad," when Agamemnon, King of the Acheans, arrogantly insults the great warrior Achilles over Briseis of the lovely arms.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575075600 (1292 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Ilium (Dan Simmons)
		Unlike his truly awful horror novels, Ilium marks Simmons's triumphant return to science fiction, a genre in which he has already had a major impact with his Hyperion series.
		Ilium is more of the same, thank goodness--a rollicking adventure in a fully realized far-future universe whose ultimate explanation Simmons lovingly doles out over the course of this big, fat book.
		The narrator of the story--or one of them, at least, is Thomas Hockenberry, a former 20th-century academic who dies and then is surprised to find himself resurrected by omnipotent entities modeled after the Greek gods.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/SimmonsDanIlium.shtml (665 words)

	on tender hooks...: 07/01/2003 - 07/31/2003
		Her first novel, LOST SOULS was a neogothic decadent tale of vampires set mainly in New Orleans.
		At the heart of the novel was Nothing, a young teen who felt he was always outside of what was normal.
		It was an explosive dynamic in-your-face novel that seduced you with the beauty of dissected corpses.
	devem.blogspot.com /2003_07_01_devem_archive.html (2634 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: Speculative Fiction Stars 2005
		Butler's first new novel in seven years is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
		In this second novel of the fanciful Sisters of the Sun trilogy, middle Fyne sister Juliet is kidnapped by the Emperor's men--only to be rescued by a man whose animal instincts tell him he's found the only woman to call his own.
		PW In this spectacular new SF novel of immense scope, an artificial, alien barrier is placed around the Earth, the moon and stars disappear, and scientists discover that time is passing faster outside the barrier than it is on the planet.
	www.cvco.org /education/literature/stars/speculative/specstars05.html (4816 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)